Born in
Kolkata in 1894, Satyendranath Bose was a great Indian physicist and mathematician. Of his noteworthy inventions is the development of a new branch of physics in association with Albert Einstein, which is now popularly referred to as Bose-Einstein statistics. This branch is applied to those particles that are not limited to single occupancy of the same space.
Bose’s other contributions include the presentation of a paper on Max Planck’s black body law and the hypothesis of light quanta in 1924. In addition, he worked on the electromagnetic properties of the ionosphere, theories of x-ray and unified field theory.
In 1958, Bose was bestowed with the title of National Professor of India. He took his last breath in 1974.
